Privacy Statement

This is a statement of the practices of the Mental Health Commission
(the "Commission") in connection with the capture of personal
data on this website (that is all web pages within the domain mhc.thelearningcentre.ie)
and the steps taken by the Commission to respect your privacy. The Commission
is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites
which may be accessed through the Mental Health Commission website.
It is Commission policy to identify clearly links to external websites
and it is your responsibility to satisfy yourself as to the adequacy
of the practices of linked sites.

This statement does not apply to other websites operated by the Mental
Health Commission. Other Mental Health Commission websites publish individual
privacy statements.

General statement

The Mental Health Commission fully respects your right to privacy and
will not collect any personal information about you on this website
without your clear permission. Any personal information which you volunteer
to the Commission will be treated with the highest standards of security
and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection
Acts, 1988 & 2003.

Processing of personal information

The Mental Health Commission does not collect any personal data about
you on this website apart from information you volunteer, for example
by contacting the Commission by email. The Commission will not process
any personal information about you on this website without your permission,
save in cases where the Commission is required by law to do so, such
as the investigation of a criminal offence by the Gardaí.

Any information you provide is not made available to any third parties,
and is used by the Commission only in accordance with the purpose for
which you provided the information and will only be retained for as
long as required for the purpose. This is normally stated on the web-page
where the information is requested and should be self-explanatory i.e.
information provided to the Commission by you to register you as a trainer
after receiving training in the Mental Health Act, 2001 from the Commission
and information provided by you to your trainer in order to receive
a certificate of attendance at training modules undertaken online or in
the classroom. However if you have any specific queries about the purpose
for which your information is to be used, you should contact our Data
Controller before submitting the information.

Processing of technical information

This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary “session”
cookies which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which
pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this
website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the
web browser.

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged
by our internet service provider for statistical purposes. No information
is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors.

The Commission will make no attempt to identify individual visitors,
or to associate technical details with any individual. It is the policy
of the Commission never to disclose such technical information in respect
of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet
service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is
bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged
to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information
will be used only by the Commission and only for statistical and other
administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which
we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute
“personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection
Acts, 1988 and 2003.

Your rights

Pursuant to Section 4 of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003, you
have certain rights to obtain a copy of the data held about you. Any
such requests should be made in writing (not email) to the data controller.
Such a request is made under the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003
Subject Access Request and the Commission will reply within 40 calendar
days.

Pursuant to Section 6 of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003 you
have the right to have your personal data corrected, if inaccurate,
or erased. Any such requests should be made in writing (not email) to
the data controller. The Commission will comply within 40 calendar days
of receiving such a request.

Security

We take appropriate security measures to maintain security of personal
data supplied to us and we review these security measures regularly.

Review

This statement should not be construed as a contractual undertaking.
The Commission reserves the right to review and amend this statement
at any time without notice and you should therefore re-visit this webpage
from time to time.

Contact details

Any queries or concerns you may have about the processing of personal
information on this website should be addressed to: